Gamaze

Following my post on The Meaning of Life, I’ve finally been able structured my research and experience on how to really enjoy a long life and healthy life. Simply, balance is one of the keywords here. You can not only get too little of something you love, you can actually get too much of it as well. Just take a look at nature and how it works, it all about long term balance from a big picture perspective. A a few years ago a wise man, my father, told me that “too much sun makes a desert” – not immediately grasping how right he was. He was really pinpointing the importance of having balance in life. The opposite would be that too much rain causes a flood. But together they create the most beautiful nature there is. Life is complex and does not consist of single opposites alone. On the other hand, it does not have to be that complicated either.

This made me passionate about researching this area more in-depth, i.e. how to best follow nature’s most central law. I’ve spent hundreds of hours of reading, thinking, discussing and actually practicing the areas below and now feel confident in bucketing the ingredients to a long, healthy and balanced life into four simple sections:

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Life is an interesting fenomenon, and during the recent centuries human beings of what we call the western world seem to have lost touch with nature, our origin. Through evolution we have become more aware of ourselves we tend to spend more time thinking about why we are and what to do with life.

Why are we here?

However, philosophies rooted in east often seem to have a smaller gap to our inner selves and tend to provide some answers to this very question. Dalai Lama almost childishly simply but accurately states in his book The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living that “the meaning of life is happiness”. How much effort have we not spent on trying to figure out why we exist, and he gives the simple ansver on the very first page. Brilliant! What else could serve a better purpouse in life?

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